Autoimmune And Chronic Diseases: The Metabolomic Solution

Too many environmental factors are leading us into crippling and longterm diseases

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body attacks and destroys its own cells and organs. This can then manifest into a variety of chronic diseases. The number of patients with autoimmune issues is growing at an alarming rate. For instance, one out of 10 citizens in the European Union suffers from an autoimmune disease. According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), 50 million Americans — one out of five — suffer from an autoimmune disease and the numbers seem to be similar for the European population.

Today they constitute the majority of chronic diseases and affect the health of more people than cardiac diseases or cancer.

belong to the category of autoimmune diseases and have increased dramatically within the last 15 years. They are chronic diseases, for which the person suffering should take complex pharmaceutical formulations for the rest of their lives.

Why Is This Happening?

According to new studies, the higher the standard of living, the greater the effect of autoimmune and chronic diseases; they are the price we pay for a way of living that is constantly distancing itself from normal.

In order to understand what happens exactly, we should examine the issue at the point where it occurs — the cellular level.

Our cells are the biological units of which our body is comprised. Colonies of cells with common characteristics are accumulated, form organs, and finally from a human body.

A cell is comprised of structural elements, and at the same time uses more components to function. They are components we receive via food and are necessary for our cells to exist and function properly. Components like that are minerals, amino acids, proteins, vitamins, enzymes, fats, and carbohydrates.

But can food nowadays provide us with the compounds a healthy body needs in quantity and quality, in order to construct its tissues and perform the necessary cellular functions that are typical of life?

Our Foods Have Changed

Within just 50 years, the change that our diet has undergone is immense.

Let us examine a food like lettuce, for instance. In the past, we had a plot and cultivated a hundred heads of lettuce in it. Today, within the same land, a thousand heads of lettuce are cultivated. The nutrients of the land have to be split between a thousand heads of lettuce instead of a hundred.

In order to have production, the use of fertilizers that restore the necessary components of the soil is unavoidable. In no case can fertilizers provide the 92 elements available in nature. The conventional cultivations enrich soil using three basic components for plant growth (nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus) whereas the best biological cultivations reach up to merely 16.

In order to receive the nutrients a lettuce provided us only 50 years ago, today we have to consume 10 heads.

However, this is not easy to achieve. The same applies to the rest of the foods we consume, whether plant or animal.

Because of this, our cells do not receive and do not dispose of the elements they need to function. Gradually, deficiencies are created at cellular and molecular levels.

Components that should be within the cell are now absent.Of course life never depends on one metabolic pathway — there are alternatives. But the second alternative is never as efficient as the first one.

As the efficiency is reduced, so is our health. We do not feel as good as we used to. Each day that passes we distance ourselves from the optimal operating state. We often believe that this is due to the years passing by. Unfortunately, though, it is now easy to observe that similar problems increasingly affect younger people.

The problem does not stop at this point. Apart from the deficiencies our cells present, we are charged with toxic substances that should not be present. Heavy metals, industrial chemicals, drugs, and other substances foreign to life are introduced to each of our cells.

Our Cells Have Changed

The state of our cells is constantly distancing itself from its initial healthy condition.

Components that should be included are now absent and others, foreign to life, that should not be present, are.

Recent research suggests that the change of biochemical composition of the inside of the cells is accompanied by a change of the membrane and the external image of the cell.

As a result of the above, the body does not recognize these cells any longer as pertaining to it and attacks them!

Depending on heredity, environment, and dietary choices, cells that distance themselves more than normal are the first ones to be attacked. In many cases, the body attacks more than one organ or system.

What Can We Do

Special metabolomic exams guide us to the restoration of the natural state of our cells. According to Harvard Medical School, metabolomics is the simplest and most accurate way to evaluate the health condition of the individual today. The concomitant restoration of the healthy functions with the use of individualized nutrition and supplementation, where necessary, gives us a very powerful weapon in the fight against autoimmune and chronic diseases.

Another solution is to help the person detect and manage hidden stress agents that are behind the disease. This is an issue that most people ignore and often remains unmanaged. Almost always, autoimmune diseases are accompanied by intense changes of mood which re-feed the disease and deteriorate the body. Seemingly common conditions like allergies may be side effects caused from autoimmune diseases, such as allergies from Lupus.

The biochemical alteration and the stress of the contemporary environment are the basic causes of the tremendous increase of autoimmune and chronic diseases. Their gradual restoration may lead to a steady improvement of the body instead of a steady deterioration.

Our body is genetically programmed to be healthy; our duty and medicine’s is to assist this effort. Recent scientific knowledge allows and encourages us to follow and support the work of nature.

Dr. Dimitris Tsoukalas, MDis a medical doctor, researcher, educator, and author. He is the founder of Metabolomic Medicine, a complete health system that addresses the exact root causes of chronic and autoimmune diseases through the use of highly advanced cellular analysis such as Metabolomic Analysis and Telomeres Analysis. He is a bestselling author and his book “How To Live 150 years In Health” is translated in three languages English, Italian and Greek.